Posted on 10/29/2005 6:05:53 AM PDT by Liz
WOW!
Scooter was vice-president of Yale's student Democrats...an active anti-war student activist... out of college he worked for Dechert Price, a law firm that **only** donates money to Democrats...from 1985 to 2000 Scooter was infamous Democrat Marc Rich's attorney (of President Clinton's Pardon-gate infamy)...
Scooter won two awards in 1993 from the Clinton Administration...also did NSC work for the Clinton Administration... and never made a donation to a Republican. His wife was more recently a staff attorney for Senate Democrats on the Judiciary Committee, a position to which Democrats apply a litmus test (either you are one of them or else you don't get on it).
It's not at all reassuring to authentic conservatives that Libby and spouse were hostile to the social conservative agenda, while Libby was holding power in a conservative admin. Libby is the type that have a disconcerting way of popping up whenever a conservative president takes office. They grab whatever top positions they can get their hands on, ones that have veto power over policy-making decisions. Once they get the power, they run off and play in their natural habitat, with the liberal crowd.
Libby represented Marc Rich, one of the most notorious organized crime figures in the world, who renounced his American citizenship to evade prosecution, a man who, while on the run, systematically looted post-Soviet Russia and was buddies with the notorious oligarchs in corrupt deals. Libby's $2M legal defense of Rich paid off with a pardon for Rich in the midnight hours of the Clinton Administration. And yet, within hours, Libby immediately moved into the crucial position of chief-of-staff to Vice-President Cheney, and admitted he called Rich to congratulate him on the pardon. Rich must have been gratified to know he had a friend smack dab in the corridors of power. Having a foot in both political camps, although totally unprincipled, is very handy to push a hidden agenda.
Even scarier, Libby, embedded as Vice President Dick Cheney's top aide, was a sub rosa power in shaping the Bush administration's policies and helped build the case for the Iraq invasion. A "specialist" in national security, Libby had logged long hours in his office near the West Wing of the White House, steeping himself in subjects like "counterterrorism, bioweapons defense and energy policy."
Libby held three WH titles: (1) chief of staff, (2) national security adviser to the vice president, and (3) assistant to President George W. Bush -- a sign of his broad influence.
Looks like, for some, that Libby's links to Marc Rich made him Most Likely to Succeed, enhanced his job prospects, and made Libby largely immune to criticism.
The Libby's dinnertime conversations must have been interesting.
This was the missing piece. I couldn't believe a New York Times reporter would go to jail to protect a Republican. It isn't who they are...
But a liberal reporter protecting someone who's working against a Republican, that makes sense.
It fits.
This was the missing piece. I couldn't believe a New York Times reporter would go to jail to protect a Republican. It isn't who they are...
But a liberal reporter protecting someone who's working against a Republican, that makes sense.
It fits. But why did Cheney have Libby working in his office. He must have known he was a dem...
Thanks for the clarification. My bad...
Nails it. Yours is a stunning piece of deduction.
What was he doing with Cheney? Wasn't Cheney smart enough to either see through this guy (meaning Cheney was naive or stupid, which I seriously doubt) or this guy is covering for Cheney or (worst of all) was planted there to set Cheney up for a fall.
Why did Libby so overtly lie when he knew that he was doing just that? He's a street-smart lawyer, not some fledging office worker who didn't know the difference.
Who's he protecting and why? Or who's he setting up and why?
bookmarked to read later
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